AMU Stands In Solidarity With UoH

AMU Stands In Solidarity With UoH

By People for People (AMU) & All India Students Association (AISA)

28 March, 2016
Countercurrents.org

Protest March against state excesses on HCU students & MHRDs diktat to curb the freedom of expression of ‘Urdu Writers’

The students of Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh has organized today a Protest March from Maulana Azad Library to Baab-e-Syed (AMU) as a solidarity act with the ongoing nationwide protests against the state motivated excesses on protesting students of University of Hyderbad (UoH)/Hyderabad Central University (HCU).

The students of HCU are being treated in most inhuman way by the authorities and jailed along with some of supporting faculty members as they have committed some serious crime?. The students of AMU straightforwardly condemn this act of oppression upon voices of resistance in a democratic country of ours and demands immediate release of all faculty & students

The student fraternity of Aligarh Muslim University strongly condemns the brutal atrocities committed on students by the police, HCU administration and state machinery & irresponsible attitude of MHRD (GOI) in reinstallation of the culprit VC of HCU responsible for the tragic and untimed death of the “dalit” research scholar cum activist late Mr. Rohith Vemula.

In addition, students of AMU are highly concerned with the latest diktat of MHRD & NCPUL directing ‘Urdu Writers’ to submit undertaking to seek financial assistance from government to publish any book stating that “in his/her book there in no ‘Anti State-Anti National’ content”. Students of AMU straightforwardly condemn this selective discrimination to ‘Urdu & Urdu Writers’ to curb their freedom of expression and demand immediate withdrawal of this controversial order/clause.

This is very unfortunate that instead of supporting & uplifting the students and writers from oppressed and weaker sections of society, highest constitutional offices in India like MHRD are indulge in weakening the oppressed classes through above descript acts.

The student fraternity of Aligarh Muslim University demands immediate resignation of Vice Chancellor of HCU Appa Rao and others directly responsible for abetment of suicide by late scholar Mr. Rohith Vemula.